ambassadors January 2010

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Re: [Ambassadors] CD / DVD stickers needed
by Vali Cobelea 17 Nov '15

17 Nov '15

Hi, Thank you for this info, I'm planning several short presentations about Fedora Project at the University of Galati, Romania, and I did not know from where / how to get Fedora 11 CDs / DVDs. Valente

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Re: [Ambassadors] FAmNA meetings going forward
by Scott Seiersen 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

I may be able to do the meetings for November. -Scott

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F12 talking points are out!
by Mel Chua 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

The F12 talking points have been released, and are ready for use (and improvement!) Many thanks to Steven Moix, Paul Frields, and Jon Roberts for their hard work. Talking points (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talking_points) are key features of the new release that we want to point out. There are different types of talking points for different types of people: users, developers, sysadmins, and more. They are meant to answer the question "so what cool stuff is in the latest release of Fedora?" Reading the talking points should get someone who's *not* necessarily already a member of the Fedora community excited. (This is something that I think the talking points could still use some help with; which ones are unclear? Which ones don't get you as excited yet?) Please take a look at the talking points and think about how you'd like to use them for F12 outreach - and if you can think of a better way of phrasing something, or think something should be improved, please let us know (or use the wiki and just make the change yourself). Ambassadors in particular: how can we turn these talking points into marketing materials that will help you spread the word? --Mel

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Heads up students. Time for Fedora Scholarship.
by susmit shannigrahi 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Pretty well described. http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/22/going-to-college-next-year-time-to-apply… -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit =============================================

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BASIS SoftExpo 2010
by mak 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Dear All, Hope you are doing fine. I'm one of the Fedora Ambassador from Bangladesh and is involved with a volunteer group named Ankur[0]; my colleague (Jamil Ahmed) is the l10n maintainer[1] for Bengali(bn_BD). My organization is involved with l10n project and Spreading FOSS in Bangladesh for last several years. You will be glad to know that we are attending annual Software Exhibition 2010 [2] arranged by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) [3]. It will be held between February 10-14, 2010. More than 200 exhibitors and over 300,000 visitors and delegates are expected to participate and attend this 5 day long exposition. We will demonstrate and distribute Bengali localized Linux Distributions and FOSS - which includes Fedora12. We are developing Bangla user manuals with localized screenshots - which will be distributed in this event too. We are planning to distribute a large number of DVD, Stickers, Flyer throughout the 5 day exhibition - as far as we can afford. It will be a great help if we have your support. I've updated my event in FY10 Q4 [4]. Please let us know the possibility. Regards, Mahay Alam Khan (mak) Fedora Ambassador Bangladesh. [0] http://www.ankur.org.bd [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Teams [2] http://www.softexpo.com.bd [3] http://www.basis.org.bd [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q4_.28December_2009_-_February_20…

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Re: [Ambassadors] Links and Logs Fedora Ambassador NA meeting yesterday TEXAS update and my $0.02
by David Duncan 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:56 AM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, wanted to provide the links to the meeting details from last night. <snip! > > 02:21:03 <cwtucker> Texas indeed > 02:21:03 <cwtucker> VileGent: yes, sorry internet issues for a min > 02:21:09 <inode0> oh, not on the events page > 02:21:17 <VileGent> exactly > 02:21:35 <StabbyMc> inode0: what is the purpose of a Fedora Ambassador Day? > 02:21:39 <inode0> I'm sure it just isn't there yet > 02:21:51 <xm4nfedoralinux> so we are still on the events before Texas > Linux Fest? > 02:22:03 <inode0> xm4nfedoralinux: yes, hold on > 02:22:15 <xm4nfedoralinux> ok. brb <snip!> > 02:25:01 <inode0> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Texas:LinuxFest_2010 > 02:25:08 <mock> makfinsky: the cake is a lie > 02:25:28 <inode0> We are going to have a nice presence at the 1st > Texas Linux Fest I hope > 02:25:54 <inode0> Anyone interested should sign up and chat with me or > David Duncan (davdunc) about helping Apologies for not making the meeting. I have a class that ends just after the meeting begins. > 02:26:10 <cwtucker> Definitely interested, and will be involved > 02:26:17 <inode0> CFP is in progress now so if you plan to go please > consider proposing a talk > 02:27:00 <inode0> I have set aside 400 pieces of F12 media to ship to > TLF pending talking to David about the appropriateness of that number > 02:28:08 <inode0> We need the ground troops to tell us what is needed > in terms of other swag and booth help I spoke with the coordinators just yesterday. They have two ticket prices and the higher price ticket comes with a goodie bag. They have requested that we contribute a flier for the bag if we can and possibly some stickers. They are expecting the ticket price with schwag to be affordable, probably around $45 for the whole thing. I did not find an updated flier at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fl… perhaps there is somewhere else to look? > 02:28:14 <cwtucker> Expecting a fairly large turnout > 02:28:16 <inode0> We will definitely have a booth .org booth fee is $100.00. Standard booth fee is $500.00 I assume we are going to submit for the former? > 02:28:59 <VileGent> is a event box or banners needed > 02:29:12 <inode0> on a tangent to TLF I'd like to encourage people > there to nose around and make as many contacts as possible with a site > for a future FUDCon in mind :) will do. Matt Domsch has been really helpful to me and has offered a lot of personal support for organizing this. I suggest the same location where the Lone Star Ruby Conference has been held in the past, the Norris Conference Center. They have reasonable rates and a very helpful staff and catering. > 02:29:22 <cwtucker> I will get with David and see where/what he needs > me to do to help him Thanks cwtucker. I believe that our responsiblities will lie in booth setup and participation on the floor. The conference really needs paper submissions. 45 and 25 minute presentations are ideal. If anyone would like to present, that would be super. > 02:30:00 <inode0> Austin always comes up as a place for FUDCon and the > one thing that seems to hold it back is not having a suitable site for > the event itself > 02:30:51 <inode0> shall we move on? > 02:36:31 <threethirty> inode0: good point, South By would be a good > place to show off what we (royal we) do > 02:36:53 <inode0> it is a bunch of events and one of the big ones is > the interactive part > 02:36:58 <threethirty> StabbyMc: its expanded to many other things but > yes its *that* sxsw > 02:37:09 <inode0> http://sxsw.com/interactive > 02:37:30 <inode0> this would be interesting to designers, right mizmo? > 02:37:53 <mizmo> inode0: absolutely <snip!> > 02:38:05 <inode0> anthro-diana: ping if you are available just chime in here > 02:38:22 <mizmo> it would be a good opportunity to present a case for > free software to the design community > 02:38:28 <mizmo> which we have not done much of > 02:38:28 <anthro-diana> There is a very large design faction and even > a bit of a design tract at the conference > 02:38:50 <ke4qqq> so we could potentially garner talented capable > design contributors?? > 02:38:56 <anthro-diana> I as a designer have attended for the last 2 years > 02:38:58 <anthro-diana> Yes > 02:39:01 <inode0> so this isn't the normal event for us, but it would > promote Fedora, it would benefit Fedora contributors, and it would > reach an audience that is likely sympathetic to us but perhaps not > aware of us I see a lot of big interactive projects hosted on Red Hat and CentOS. I have not seen any on Fedora. Linux is gaining ground in ontology hosting. I think that Fedora is important to them. Is anyone doing something like an OWASP spin or using Fedora-Commons on Fedora? It would be great to see something semantic or security related in our booth. > 02:39:14 <anthro-diana> There is also a large open source contingent there > 02:39:26 <ke4qqq> who is that contingent? > 02:39:36 <anthro-diana> it differs from year to year > 02:39:42 <anthro-diana> not necessary sponsored by any company > 02:39:50 <VileGent> we are to spread fedora even to places that we > might not be the most comfortable > 02:40:05 <threethirty> like macworld :) > 02:40:15 <anthro-diana> There are the usual players as well > 02:40:27 <inode0> actually I think SXSW would be very comfortable with Fedora > 02:40:29 <anthro-diana> but software is definitely a focus > 02:40:51 <inode0> it just isn't a place we normally show up > 02:41:21 <crossbytes> so has someone been to this SXSW it looks very > interesting? > 02:41:30 <xm4nfedoralinux> so who is attending TLF > 02:42:29 <inode0> crossbytes: anthro-diana just talked about attending > 02:42:38 <threethirty> crossbytes: i havent been their personally but > i have follwed it on the net and it looks like a cool event, ive been > wanting to go for years > 02:42:54 <anthro-diana> there is also the side event of Bar Camp Austin > 02:43:03 <inode0> ok, there is a second part of this story ... oops > 02:43:13 <anthro-diana> :) > 02:43:13 <makfinsky> Bar Camp? > 02:43:22 <makfinsky> As in making drinks? > 02:43:46 <inode0> so there is a barcamp we can have a normal presence at > 02:44:16 <inode0> Is everyone ok with spreading our event wings a bit > to try to reach some new audiences? The BarCamp is great here. The problem is that it usually forms and happens within a 2 to 3 week period and it is over in one weekend. Very little planning time from event announcement to start date historically. We need to be ready before they announce - if they do. > 02:44:22 <StabbyMc> bar camp, the concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_camp > 02:44:51 <inode0> http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustin <- last year's link > 02:44:51 <makfinsky> inode0: Agreed. > 02:45:07 <cwtucker> inode0: sounds good > 02:45:43 * inode0 asks mizmo and anthro-diana to come up with a plan :) < snip! > > 02:49:47 <anthro-diana> the barcamp is like the open source version of SXSW > 02:49:50 <StabbyMc> Any other event based items that were not on the agenda? > 02:50:02 <anthro-diana> SXSWi is generally cost prohibitive to many people > 02:50:07 <nullsys> I do have something small, but I dont know how much > it will affect US people. > 02:50:20 <anthro-diana> so a lot of people just go to Austin to attend > the BC that benefits from the overflow of SXSWi <snip! > > 02:50:52 <StabbyMc> anthro-diana: I can see that; travel to Austin > around the time of SxSW is also rather prohibitive. > 02:51:17 <anthro-diana> I've found roommates on Twitter just so that I > could attend :) > 02:51:51 <anthro-diana> My badge is comped this year, so I am already > going, I also have a suite already reserved in hopes to be able to > share it with roommates Travel to Austin around this time must be planned in advance - way in advance. I have had trouble flying to even Birmingham AL during SXSW. AMTrack is an easy ride down from Dallas, though. It has wireless internet all the way. <snip! to end> -- David Duncan Austin, TX RHCA #805007392628032

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Budget Support for Fedora Indonesia
by Alzea Alzea 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Dear Fedora Ambassadors A few days ago we (Fedora Indonesia) had guests from Germany. Mr. Mario Behling of LXDE fundation. He called on us to attend and represent Fedora Indonesia in the event Gnome Asia Summit to be held in Vietnam in November 2010. Honestly we do not have the funds to transport and accommodation costs, we are pure free support community and do not get support funds from any others party. My question, could we get funding for transport and accommodation from Fedora, to attend the Gnome Asia Summit in Vietnam? honest we really wanted to attend the event. as Fedora Indoneisa. Thanks a lot. warm regards. N4is3N(a)Fedora.or.id

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Events calendars
by Paul W. Frields 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

We have a wiki page for other events calendars: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Linux_Events I added http://fossevents.org/ to that page. But the page could use some Ambassador's attention, and this would be a good task for a newer Ambassador who's looking for a way to help. It would take maybe a half-hour or so for someone to go through all the links on that page and do some upkeep: * See if links work, fix or remove as necessary * If some of these sites are read-only calendars, break the page up to separate out and highlight sites where Ambassadors can add event information for Fedora events -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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FAMSCO meeting on February 1
by Max Spevack 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi Ambassadors, FAMSCO will meet on February 1 at 1800 UTC in #fedora-meeting-1 The agenda is below, and also at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAmSCo_agenda Thanks, Max == 2010-02-01 agenda == Review last week's action items: * January's FAMSCO monthly report ** Everyone -- spend 15 minutes [[Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/ReportTemplate |adding relevant information]]. ** Max -- final editing of the report. ** Susmit -- turn it into a PDF, create Publican/Latex template for FAMSCO report ** Joerg -- send the final report to the mailing list. ** Maria -- schedule the first Ambassadors IRC town hall for sometime in the first week of February, in #fedora-ambassadors. Probably need to tell people that we'll change the times of these town halls monthly, so that all regions can participate over time. * Joerg -- update mentoring status * Rodrigo -- create a workflow for event organization along the interfaces used in the Fedora Community Portal and FAS2. Stuff from last week's agenda that we didn't get to: * Joerg -- make mentoring better through more automation * Joerg -- Input for mentoring survey New business: * Max -- report on the [[Events_FAD_2010|Events FAD]] and what that means for all FUDCons in 2010. * Can we make the FAMSCO trac instance completely open? Max thinks yes. Every week: * 10 minutes -- short regional reports and feedback. * Max -- Lead review of [https://fedorahosted.org/famsco/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reo… open tickets].

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FOSDEM FAD Agenda
by Pierros Papadeas 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Good morning my fellow ambassadors! Following the descusion we had on our last EMEA Ambassadors Meeting [1] we are organizing a FAD on Friday 5/2 on Brussels just before FOSDEM starts :) Although some final details are yet to be confirmed (place, exact time), we set up an agenda on this mini FAD [2] Please navigate to that link and add your agenda items before the upcoming Friday. An official announcement of the FOSDEM FAD will follow. Hope to see you there! ~π [1] http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-27/fedora-meeting.2… [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FOSDEM_2010#FOSDEM_FAD -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros(a)papadeas.gr liknus @ GRnet , Freenode

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